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25 June 2012

Ellis Island

Check out this old proposal for turning Ellis Island into an vacation resort.
Posted by David Tulloch at Monday, June 25, 2012
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Director of SEBS General Honors Program and Professor of Landscape Architecture in Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Associate Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. Dr. Tulloch can be reached at tulloch[at]crssa.rutgers.edu Research online at: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-9190 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lOLIQZ8AAAAJ&hl=en https://crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/geohealth/
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